Tweet By Simon Swallow* Nearly 80% of people who have lived and worked in the UK have a private or company pension. So what happens in the UK pension market has a significant impact on millions of people, as well as thousands of British expats in New Zealand and the Kiwi’s who’ve worked in the UK on their OE. The …

Tweet By Scott Downs* Many in the New Zealand forest industry have a “wait and see” approach to their business. Saw millers are waiting to see if local demand for sawn timber will recover closer to earlier forecasts. Exporters of New Zealand logs to China are waiting to see how the Chinese mills ramp up production after the Lunar New …

Tweet By Allan Barber The latest half year result to 31 December gives rise to serious doubt whether Landcorp, or Pamu Farms as it now likes to be known, will ever justify the taxpayer investment in a national farming enterprise. Published after tax profit was $21.9 million compared to $37.9 million in 2016 on revenue which was 3% lower at …

Tweet By Denise Ho* Now that China’s National People’s Congress has voted – 2,958 to two – to abolish presidential term limits, Xi Jinping could rule China indefinitely, rather than completing a tenure of two five-year terms in 2023. To what degree is Xi set to become the all-powerful ruler many observers predict? China watchers have been debating the character …

Tweet This article is a re-post from Fathom Consulting‘s Thank Fathom its Friday: “A lighthearted look at the week’s events”. It is here with permission by Erik Britton* The board game Monopoly® was originally invented by Elizabeth Magie, under the name “The Landlord’s Game”, as a means of demonstrating the evils of rentier capitalism. Originally, there were two sets of rules …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a professional poker player from California faces charges that he bilked investors out of more than $6 million in a Super Bowl and World Cup ticket-flipping scam.The U.S. Attorney’s Office…

Veritas Investments shareholders voted to sell the business and assets of the Mad Butcher franchisor to its chief executive Michael Morton for $8 million at a special meeting held today in Auckland. “Shareholders have today ratified,…

BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) — Sports apparel brand Nike says one of its senior executives will step down in August.Nike did not say why Trevor Edwards, its brand president who had been seen as a possible future CEO, was leaving the company….

Andrew Tan spent 18 months looking for a job before taking up his new senior IT role in Melbourne last week. He says he often had the sneaking suspicion that some of the jobs he applied for weren’t actually real.”I applied for about…

Andrea Moore & Co, the clothing chain that failed in January, “significantly overstated” the value of inventory on its balance sheet and in its stock system, according to receivers McGrathNicol.Directors Andrea Moore and partner…